Parking meters shall be installed and parking meter spaces designated and marked on the streets or sections of streets set forth in Schedule XXIII (§ 226-63).
[Amended 7-13-1992 by Ord. No. 969]
A.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of any motor vehicle to park such vehicle between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, Monday through Friday, except for legal holidays as defined, for more than two hours at any time upon the portion of the streets described in Schedule XXIII (§ 226-63) of the Code of the Borough of Punxsutawney as parking meter zones. The rates to be charged for parking in these zones during the times set forth above shall be as the Borough Council shall, from time to time, establish by resolution.
[Amended 12-13-1993 by Ord. No. 978; 12-12-2017 by Ord. No. 1149]
B.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter
of the Code of the Borough of Punxsutawney for any person to deposit
or cause to be deposited in a parking meter located in the on-street
meter zones any coin for the purpose of increasing or extending the
parking time of any vehicle beyond the total legal parking time as
set forth above.
[Amended 7-13-1992 by Ord. No. 969]
A.
The rates charged at each metered space in any municipal
parking lot shall be as the Borough Council shall, from time to time,
establish by resolution. Parking lot meters shall not be equipped
to provide for any courtesy period.
[Amended 12-13-1993 by Ord. No. 978]
A.
Location and characteristics of meters and parking
spaces. Parking meters installed in the on-street parking meter zones
as established by this article shall be placed upon the inside of
the curbline and immediately adjacent to each individual parking space.
In municipal parking lots, meters shall be installed adjacent to each
designated parking space. Each parking meter shall be placed or set
in such manner as to show that the parking space adjacent to such
meter is or is not legally occupied. Each parking meter installed
shall indicate by a proper legend the legal parking time established
by the Borough, and when operated shall indicate on and by its dial
and pointer the duration of the period of legal parking and, on the
expiration of such period, shall indicate illegal or overparking.
B.
Manner of parking at meter. There shall be lines or
markings painted or placed upon the curb and/or upon the streets adjacent
to each parking meter or upon the surface of the parking lot for the
purpose of designating the parking spaces for which said meter is
to be used. Each vehicle parked adjacent to or next to any parking
meter shall be parked within the lines or markings so placed. It shall
be unlawful and a violation of this chapter to park such vehicle in
such position that the same shall not be entirely within the area
so designated by such lines or markings. In all municipal parking
lots, vehicles are to be parked so that the front of the vehicle is
nearest the parking meter for that space.
C.
Deposit of coin. When any vehicle shall be parked
in any space adjacent to which a parking meter is located, the owner
or operator of said vehicle shall, upon entering said parking space,
immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in such parking meter
a lawful coin or lawful coins of the United States and operate the
meter in accordance with the instructions thereon, and failure to
do so shall constitute a violation of this chapter. Upon the deposit
of such coin or coins and placing the meter in operation, the parking
space may be lawfully occupied by such vehicle during the period of
parking time which has been prescribed on the parking meter for the
particular amount deposited. If the vehicle shall remain parked in
any such parking space for such a length of time that the meter shall
indicate by a proper signal that the lawful parking period has expired,
such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime, and the parking
of a vehicle shall be a violation of this chapter.
D.
Illegal to remain in parking space when meter shows
expired signal. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions
of this chapter for any person to permit a vehicle to remain or be
placed in any parking space adjacent to any parking meter while such
meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying
such parking space has already been parked beyond the period of time
prescribed for such parking spaces. At any metered parking space,
except those controlled by red fifteen-minute meters, each period
of two hours during which a vehicle remains in violation of this section
of the chapter shall be considered a separate offense. At parking
spaces controlled by red meters, each period of 15 minutes during
which a vehicle remains in violation of this section shall be considered
a separate offense.
E.
Illegal to deposit slugs. It shall be unlawful and
a violation of the provisions of this chapter to deposit or cause
to be deposited in any parking meter any slug device or metallic substitute
for either a five-cent, ten-cent or twenty-five-cent coin of the United
States.
F.
Illegal to tamper with or harm meter. It shall be
unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this chapter for any
person to deface, injure, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy
or impair the usefulness of any parking meter installed under the
provisions of this chapter.
G.
Enforcement.
(1)
It shall be the duty of the police officers or the
meter enforcement officer of the Borough, acting in accordance with
the instructions issued by the Chief of Police, to report:
(a)
The date and hour of such violation.
(b)
The number of each parking meter which indicated
that the vehicle occupying the parking space adjacent to such parking
meter is, or has been, parked in violation of any of the provisions
of this chapter.
(c)
The state license number of such vehicle.
(d)
Any other facts and knowledge of which is necessary
to a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending such violations.
(2)
Each such police officer or meter enforcement officer
shall also place on such vehicle a notice to the owner or operator
thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation of the provisions
of this chapter of the Code of the Borough of Punxsutawney and instructing
such owner or operator to report at the office of the Police Department
of the Borough of Punxsutawney or pay the fine by placing cash, check
or money order into the return envelope and placing it into one of
the red Fine-o-Meter boxes located in the Borough in regard to such
violation. Each such owner or operator shall, within 48 hours from
the time such notice was attached to such vehicle, pay the office
of the Police Department the penalty for the full satisfaction of
such violation, the sum of $5. The fine for a second and every subsequent
parking meter notice for overtime parking in the same parking space
in any twenty-four-hour period is $10 per notice. The failure of such
owner or operator to make such payment at the office of the Police
Department within the aforesaid forty-eight-hour period shall render
such owner or operator subject to a fine of $15, plus any and all
costs of mailing, by certified mail, any notice of the violation to
the owner or operator responsible. Such fine and costs shall be payable
to the Punxsutawney Borough Police Department. Upon further failure
of such owner or operator to make payment of the above stated fine,
plus costs, a citation will be filed with the Magisterial District
Judge and such owner or operator shall, upon conviction, be subject
to the penalties elsewhere provided in this chapter of the Code of
the Borough of Punxsutawney for violation of the provisions hereof,
plus costs of prosecution. The time period stipulated in this subsection
shall be exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays.
[Amended 8-14-1989 by Ord. No. 955; 7-13-1992 by Ord. No.
969; 7-12-2004 by Ord. No. 1045; 12-10-2007 by Ord. No. 1078; 7-12-2010 by Ord. No. 1103; 12-12-2017 by Ord. No. 1149]
H.
Legal holidays. For the purpose of this chapter, legal
holidays shall include the following days only:
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New Year's Day
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Good Friday
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Memorial Day
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The Fourth of July
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Labor Day
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Veterans Day
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Thanksgiving
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Christmas
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I.
Parking meter deposits to defray costs of maintenance
and traffic regulations. The amount of the coins required to be deposited
in parking meters, as provided in this chapter, is hereby levied and
assessed as fees to cover the costs of the supervision, inspection,
installation, operation, maintenance, control and use of the parking
spaces, the rental fees for properties leased as municipal parking
lots, regulation of the parking of vehicles, street cleaning and maintenance
in the parking meter zones and lots created hereby and for the maintenance
of, and traffic regulations on, the streets in said Borough.
J.
Acts of tampering, etc., to be separate offenses.
Any act damaging or destroying any meter or the appliances and equipment
thereof shall be a single and separate offense under this chapter,
and any act which shall damage or destroy more than one meter or any
of its equipment shall not be a continuing offense but shall be a
separate violation for each meter or any of its equipment damaged
or destroyed. Likewise, any other act shall not be continuing but
shall be construed a separate violation for each slug, tampering,
overstaying or otherwise violating the terms of this chapter, and
a fine may be levied against the violator for each separate offense,
as herein defined, and paid as herein provided.
